Index
- How to use Bluetooth connection?
- How to input custom PID in App?
- How to edit custom PID in Excel?
- Log file for debug
- Download Prius custom PID file
Answers
How to use Bluetooth connection?
The iPhone’s Bluetooth is not a standard Bluetooth. In order to use it for standard Bluetooth devices in data mode you need to jailbreak it. Here is a tool in Jailbreak store to manage the Bluetooth If you have jailbreak iPhone and that tool installed, you should be already able to use Engine Link with the OBD II Bluetooth device.
How to input custom PID in App?
| Step 1
In order to configure the custom PID, you need to know the ECU Id the app needs to monitor. Depend on the vehicle bus type, this Id
can be 3-digit hex number (11-bit can bus), or 2-digit hex number (non-can or 29-bit can bus). If you don't know this information,
input 0, and the app will try to find engine ECU automatically. More information can be found here . |
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| Step 2
Once you entered ECU Id, you can input PID value. Standard PIDs can be found here . For vehicle specific PIDs, you may find information from online forums. Here is an example: . |
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| Step 3 In step 3, you enter the formula to calculate the display value. The data from OBD-II is a BYTE stream. In this app, A means the first BYTE, B means the second BYTE. This is in agreement to the wiki page above. Basically, the variables are A, B, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., AZ, BA, BB, ... |
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| Step 4 In step 4, you enter the MIN value of the result |
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| Step 5 In Step 5, you enter the MAX value of the result. |
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| Step 6 You can enter a description of the display. For example, Engine RPM. |
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| Step 7 In Step 7, you can enter the unit for the display. |
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How to edit custom PID in Excel?
The custom PID list can be copied out from your iPhone using iTunes File Sharing. The file name is pidlist.csv (make sure it is lower case). You can edit this file in excel or text editor and copy it back to the iPhone using iTunes File Sharing. You have to completely stop Engine Link app (remove from background) and restart it in order to load the new pidlist.csv
Log file for debug
Engine Link app creates log file obddata.log and can be downloaded from iTunes File sharing. If you think there is issue, you can copy out the log file and send us for debug.
Download Prius custom PID file
Download Prius custom PID file here .